"A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years."

-- Rupert Brooke

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“The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.”
“His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but we are helped to understand him when we learn that he asserted, and to the end of his life maintained, his belief in an Almighty Creator and Upholder of the Universe. It did, indeed, at a later period suit the purposes of his enemies, exasperated by his tolerant spirit and his reforming plans, to proclaim him an atheist; but that sort of charge has been the commonest of missiles against troublesome thinkers in all times.”

Source : "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, pp. 167-168, 1915.
“I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.”

Source : The George Washington University Interview, nsarchive2.gwu.edu. January 18, 1997.
“One thing that is evident is that [Albert] Camus could never be a 'neutral' man. This is because he was committed; look at his real physical involvement in the Resistance. He took part, there, in the combat against Nazism.”
“From the rocket we can see the huge sphere of the planet in one or another phase of the Moon. We can see how the sphere rotates, and how within a few hours it shows all its sides successively ... and we shall observe various points on the surface of the Earth for several minutes and from different sides very closely. This picture is so majestic, attractive and infinitely varied that I wish with all my soul that you and I could see it.”

Source : "The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth". Book by William E. Burrows (p. 147), July 10, 2007.
“It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself.”
“that every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a marvelous discovery”
“The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.”

Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.298

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